The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-06-09
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
A Discourse FUN OF Comfort tc
the Afflicted and Distressed.


A Sprig Of HeArt's-Ease for the Wounded
spirit-Christ the Comforter. the
Ever-Present Help in Time Of
Trouble and Distress.
sermon at the Brooklyn Tabernacle, adj
dressed his words more particularly to
those ON whom the hand of sorrow and
afiction had been heavily laid, taking for
his text:
And his disciples went and told Jesus
Matthew XIV, IL.
An outrageous assassination had Just
taken place. To appease revengeful
woman King Herod ordered the death of
that noble, self-sacrifcing Christian, John
the Baptist. The group Of the disciples
was thrown into grief and dismay. They
felt themselves utterly defenseless. There
was no authority to which they could APP
peal, and yet grief must always find ex-
preston II there be no human car to
hear it, then the agonixed soul will cry it
aloud to the winds, and the woods, and
the waters. But there was an ear that
was willing to listen. There is tender
pathos, and at the same time a most adj
mirable picture, in the words OF my text:
They went and told Jesus.
He could understand all their grief, and
he Immediately soothed it. Our burdens
are not more than half so heavy to carry
If another is thrust under the other end
OF them. Here we find Christ, his brow
Swallowed with grief, standing amid the
group Of disciples, who, with tears and
violent Resticulations, and wringing of
hands, and outcry Of bereavement, are
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